Ensemble Resonanz / Tabea Zimmermann by Hindemith, Bacewicz, Enescu, Schubert, Alkaen (2023/2023), Musiikinjohto Tabea Zimmermann, Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany

Free, expressive and visionary: at the center of a spectacular evening of great chamber music, Ensemble Resonanz places the stroke of genius of a 19-year-old: George Enescu's late-Romantic string octet in the version for string orchestra. Tabea Zimmermann's exceptional qualities as a musician and violist meet visionary string sounds. On the ridge of the turn of the century, George Enescu works with the "nervousness of an engineer" on the "first suspension bridge over a river". Looking back on the age of romanticism and at the same time daring to take big steps in new directions, he solders Romanian folklore, French impressionism and German romanticism in his string octet to a multi-layered amalgam of spirited passages and melancholic moments, of rhapsody and swirling waltzes. A piece with visionary string sounds, which – here in the version for string orchestra – intoxicates itself, so to speak. Enescu has the synthesis of different styles in common with the Polish »First Lady of Music«: Grażyna Bacewicz's late Divertimento is a firework of sound ideas. Paul Hindemith, a third member of the group, writes touchingly beautiful sounds for the death of the king, from which the viola stands out plaintively - Tabea Zimmermann subtly fathoms the depth dimensions of Hindemith's compositions. And to start with, Franz Schubert breathes the spirit of Rossini.